Bret Burquest is a former award-winning columnist for The News (2001-2007) and author of four novels. He has lived in Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta, Kansas City, Memphis and the middle of the Arizona desert. After a life of blood, sweat and tears in big cities, he has finally found peace in northern Arkansas where he grows tomatoes, watches sunsets and occasionally shares the Secrets of the Universe (and beyond) with the rest of the world.

Equal Rights for Ostriches

Posted Sunday, October 11, 2009, at 11:54 AM

Chaos is an inherent unpredictability in the behavior of a natural system or in the course of human events.

Discordianism is a belief system based on chaos. Some people believe it's a joke disguised as a religion, and others believe it's a religion disguised as a joke. The true believers claim it's a religion disguised as a joke disguised as a religion. While most religions cherish harmony and order, Discordianism reveres chaos, which it contends is the prevailing impulse of the universe. "There is serenity in chaos. Seek ye the eye of the hurricane."

The PRINCIPIA DISCORDIA, by Malaclypse (a.k.a. Greg Hall), is the foundational document of Discordianism. It describes an ideal society where there are no rules. The duality of yin and yang are replaced with "Hodge" and "Podge," represented by an apple and the pentagon. Some of the Saints include Don Quixote and Yossarian.

The PRINCIPIA DISCORDIA, also introduced the mysterious word "fnord," considered to be a nonsensical term meaning irrelevant information or disinformation intended to misdirect, with the implication of a conspiracy.

In THE ILLUMINATI TRILOGY, a series of novels by Robert Anton Wilson (with Robert Shea), the term "fnord" was further revealed to be part of a grand conspiracy scheme by the Illuminati (meaning "the illuminated ones" -- the secret wealthy rulers of the world) whereby children in grade school are taught to be consciously unable to see the fnord (not the actual word itself but a substitute word or phrase, always in print form).

Thereafter, every appearance of the substitute (consciously unseen) word or phrase creates a subconscious feeling of confusion and stifles rational thought. Fnords are placed within news media text, causing anxiety about current events. The Illuminati want society in perpetual chaos in order to maintain conformity and control.

However, there are no fnords in advertising, thus encouraging consumerism and enriching the ruling class.

The word "fnord" has also recently been adopted within computer Internet circles to mean something out of context, such as a random sentence, irrational text or anything out of context, intentional or otherwise.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

The previous sentence was a fnord, which subconsciously compels one to idolize the author of this piece.

Robert Anton Wilson was born in New York City in 1932. He attended Brooklyn Polytechnical College and New York University where he studied mathematics and engineering. He worked as an engineering aide, salesman, copywriter, and was an associate editor for Playboy magazine from 1965 to 1971. He was also a philosopher, psychologist, researcher, novelist, essayist, futurist, anarchist, and a stalker of the elusive fnord.

At the core of his literary genius, he considered the basic condition of humanity to be both comic and tragic. "Serious people are always so grim and uptight that they make me want to dance naked on the lawn playing the flute... nothing is true unless it makes you laugh, but you really don't understand it until it makes you cry."

Wilson ran for governor of California in 2004 as the Guns and Dope Party candidate. The party platform was:

1) Guns for those who want them, no guns forced on those who don't want them.

2) Drugs for those who want them, no drugs forced on those who don't want them.

3) An end to Tsarism [rule by emperor] and a return to constitutional democracy.

4) Equal rights for ostriches [large birds incapable of flight that stick their heads in the sand to avoid reality].

Robert Anton Wilson confronted the fnord and found the true meaning within it. He died on January 11, 2007.

His last words, typed on his personal website, were, "I don't see how to take death seriously. I look forward without dogmatic optimism, but without dread. I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying."

Ultimately, a fnord is the mumbo jumbo that dissolves the individual into the crowd.

E Pluribus Unum.

Secret societies have existed since the beginning of recorded history. The Illuminati was officially founded on May 1, 1776, by Adam Weishaupt in Bavaria. Its true leader was Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who created the Rothschild financial dynasty. The French Revolution was one of their many covert operations, disguised as freedom for the people.

These days, the term "Illuminati" is used to refer to an inter-breeding, close-knit bloodline of Global Elitists in high places behind the scene who covertly manipulate outcomes all around the world. Thus, the "Illuminated Ones" have advanced knowledge of future events.

The true rulers of the world today are a small group of banking houses called "International Bankers" -- Rothschild, Rockefeller, etc. They lend money to governments and exert ultimate power over them for their own selfish interests. They control executive officers, legislative bodies, mainstream media, monetary systems, education, and instigate global conflict to further their cause (divide and conquer, appropriate and control).

Their goal is a one-world government with them at the helm. And they don't take kindly to those who refuse to submit quietly to being enslaved.

Robert Anton Wilson was one of many who have sounded the alarm.

The purpose of government is to ensure the freedom of the individual within a level playing field, not to meet in secrecy to scheme ways to enrich and empower themselves.

Equal rights for ostriches.

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Quote for the Day -- "Out of these troubled times, a New World Order can emerge." George Herbert Walker Bush

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Bret Burquest is an award-winning columnist and author of four novels. He lives in the Ozark Mountains with a dog named Buddy Lee and where equal rights for ostriches is the norm. His blogs appear on several websites, including www.myspace.com/bret1111

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When One World Government comes, we will need a common international language as well. As a native English speaker, I would prefer Esperanto.